The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-09-22
PlTH AND POINT.

Toothpick timber is being badly
adulterated.-Aka California.
Eternal vigilance is the price OF q
safe railroad line. Buffalo Courier.
The complaint at Bar Harbor is that
It is easier to find the harbor than the
bar. Florida Times Union.
Some of the best blood in the land
now runs through the mosquitoes veins.
Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
Machinery will do almost anything,
and what machinery can't do q woman
a with a hairpin. NeO Haven NeWs.
The man who will not listen to rea-
son soon becomes a crank; but trying
to turn him is a waste Of time. -NeW
Orleans Ricayune.
1t is the little things of this life that
bother us. One yellow-jacket at a
camp-meeting will ruin a whole SER
mon.-BGitSnaore american.
Several ballet gffls intend suing a
Chicago paper for ,libelous comments
on their, costumes. It is to be hoped
they will secure redress.-LDe.
The editor who saw a lady making
" GuC Ouly Scdt III tAo Col AOuAu AlII
self ".crowded out to make room for
more interesting matter. "-JeWelry
NeWs. w.
They are trying to stir up another
disturbance in the Canadian northwest,
but it is not likely to be- Riel rebellion.
only a halfway sort of rows. Paul
Globe. ~
1t does not follow that a town is
ruined, in a business way, because a
gambler can not make q living in it,
working at his trade. -New Orleans
Hcayu'se.
Male attire for women is said 10 be
the coming fad in Paris. A number of
American women, have been wearing
the trousers at home for years.-PhT-
adelphia Times.
A hackman recently went into the
surf'at Long Branch and encountered
a huge shark. Their eyes met for an
instant, when the shark blushed and
swan out. -PWck. Z r.
The syndicate to corner the whisky
market has failed of it's object, owing
to the opposition of the distillers. Even
a worm of the still will turn when trod
upon. Philadelphia Press.
There will, be no boodling in the
present Cook county board. The con-
victed boodlers would no doubt rather
60 to Joliet than stay in a board where
they couldn't DOODLE Chicago Times.
An Indiana farmer outwitted three
confidence men because he had read of
their little game in the newspapers.
Tho cfoto fosvs 20 nao& ok horI. ~1-v -
the time to subscribe. st. Paul Globe.
The crop of .hops~wiH ko~smailer
than usual this season. Now we come
to think about it, there was an extra
ordinary demand for frogs legs this
year. Vintage of '6S.)- Buffalo Er-
press.
II some of the men would wear a bar
rel for a bathing suit the monotony of
the beach would be relieved and only
the defOrmities of the extremities would
be on exhibition Vineyard
Herald. 4 a
If the warm weather had continued
a little longer the proprietor of the
summer-resort hotel would have worn
diamonds next year-a luxury until
now ~enjoved only by the clerk. -BaMs--
more american. ,-.r~ ~.
Why does not Colorado take off it's
coat and lick thunder out of Colorow
and his crowdp Give Senator Tom
Bowen a chance at them: He will
talk them to death in t%wenty-four
hours. Omaha Bee. gle&
d. A man who can stand on his head or
play a fiddle with his toes can have a
piece written for him and go on the
road as a star, but the base ball player
comes to a dead. halt in the winter
Mew Orleans Pscayune.
Every paper is remarking that Jay
Gould is a,grandfather." But this was
quite in the natural order of things.
1t would be something really remarka-
BILE, now, were Jay Gould a grand
mother. - Chicago Times. ,
It is strange that in the age which
has produced an Edison no effective
a has boon devised to prevent
what is N Of the gravest and most
universal among the minor tortures of
life. the mosqu to.-NeW Koyb Herald.
The subscriber to a newspaper who.
imagines it is published for the pur-
pose of booming some chap for Office,
or to pull political, religious, or n
other kind of chestnuts from the fire, is
away of. Times have changed.-Cs-
dar Rapids Gazette.
+ Miss Josie Barnard. a Lowell heir
ess, was married to:her grandmother
coachman a year or two ago. She now
finds herself reduced to restitution, and
has just returned to lowell from Prov
idence on a ticket furnished By the
overseers of the poor. Young ladies
with a weakness for coachmen should
paste this item in their hats.-Chscago
Times.